On 9/21/2012 9:27 AM, Tomct wrote:
> It's been awhile since anyone posted on this subject, but last night I
> was canning some tomatoes, and when it was time to take the jars out of
> the water bath, I noticed a piece of tomato floating on the top of the
> water. I thought nothing of it, just that I had somehow dropped a piece
> in there, but as I was removing the first jar, the top 2/3 of one of the
> jars broke away from the bottom. What a mess it made in the water!
> Today I noticed that the jar was an Atlas Mason jar, and since all our
> other jars are Ball jars, I googled Altas Mason Jars and found this
> site.
>
> Though I haven't had a chance to look around, I thought I'd update the
> thread, and provide a "living example" of why maybe it's not such a good
> idea to use these jars. I'm guessing it somehow made it's way from a
> jar of spaghetti to our jar storage, bypassing what should have been the
> recycling bin!!
>
>
I've used the Atlas Mason 26 ounce jars for several years with good
results. They were the jars used to hold Classico sauce and had a lip
that took regular canning lids. I have notice that the new Classico
sauce jars do NOT have the same lip, they have a different lid. I
suspect that, from your experience they are no longer made like regular
canning jars if you have them breaking. Certainly they would not hold
jar contents if they lip has different threads than a regular canning
jar. For that reason my friends no longer save me the Classico sauce
jars. I never bought any canned sauce because I like my homemade sauce
much better. I occasionally run up on some of the old Classico jars at
garage sales, etc.